Mouthpiece and lip-protector for cigars.



O. HAMMERSTEIN.

'MOUTHPIEGE AND LIP PROTEUTOR FOR CIGARS.

APPLIOATION FILED MAR. 21, 1908.

953,419., Patented Mar-.29, 1910.

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ronwsrs new and useful OSCAR HAMMERSTEI'N,

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MOU'IHPIECE AND LIP-PROTECTOR FOR CIGARS.

Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed March 21, 1908.

Patented Mar. as, rare.

Serial No. 422,439.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN, l a citizen of the United States, residing in the borough of Manhattan, city, county, and l State of New York, have invented certain Improvements in Mouthpieces and Lip-Protectors for Cigars, of

i which the following is a specification.

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clamped Reference 1s to be had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents a side view of a cigar which carries my improved lip protector. Fig. 2 is a side view of the lip protector as it appears before it is placed on the cigar.

The object of my invention is to supply a cigar with a lip protector which will prevent the moist tobacco from coming into contact with the lips of the smoker, which protector shall be easily a plied to a cigar, but which, when once app 'ied, cannot come and which, moreover, is so constructed that it will not cover the cigar tightly at the place where it enters the My invention mainly consists in a lip protector of very thin india rubber which hugs the ci an tightly at the inner end, but is ree and loose at the outer end, and which has a thickening ring formed on its inner end.

In the accompanying drawings a represents a cigar.

b in Fig. 2 represents the lip protector thin india rubber, preferably tapering to be smaller at the outer end than at the inner end, and which, provided with a flange;

at the inner end, is like enlargement 0, 1n the form of a rubber rolling around the ring 0, become any flexible material capable of When this lip protector is applied to it assumes the form and position in- 1, that is to say, it hugs the cigar tightly at its inner end a and is quite loose and distant from the body of the cigar at its outer end. With the outer end of the protector thus loose and spaced from the ody of the cigar the sa1d cigar is not at this point and consethe protector is a cigar,

or pinched quently draws freely when in position.

The protector is applied to a cigar by slipping the inner end 0 over the end of the cigar until it begins to hug it and then rolling the protector along, so that part of it will roll around the ring a, as indicated in Fig. 1. Thus it will be seen that the lip by this protector actually on the cigar has,

than it was when off the cigar. The smoker cuts the tip of the cigar ofi in line with the open outer end of the protector and can then smoke the cigar without having the protector interfere with the draft, and without having his lips come in contact with the tobacco. The protector cannot come 01f the cigar, unless itis rolled 0E, and will, therefore, retain its proper position as long as desired; nor will it injure the cigar wrapper I while being applied to the cigar, because as soon as the thin india rubber begins to hug the cigar, the rolling process heretofore described will enable it to assume the final position desired, without interfering with the wrapper of the cigar or injuring it.

I desire it to be understood that wherever I have used the term india rubber in the specification and claim, this term is to cover use in connection with my invention and that the claim is to be construed in this manner.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent. is:

A detachable lip protector for cigars comprising a th n india rubber tube having an,

shorter enlargement at its inner end and havingits outer end tapered, said protector being .adapted to hug the cigar at the inner end andto be free and out of contact with said cigar at its outer end. T L

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set In hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 20th day of March, 1908.

osonn HAMMERSTEIN.

Witnesses:

JOHN A. KEHLENBECK, RUDOLPH Armani. 

